When you clearly don’t intend to do anything to make amends: HTTP://WWW.DAILYKOS.COM/STORY/2012/02/03/1061450/-LAZY-MEDIA-REPORTS-KOMEN-FOUNDATION-DECISION-AS-REVERSAL-IT-ISNT?VIA=BLOG_1 Hey world. When you “apologize” it is supposed to mean that you feel remorse, and that you would like to make amends. Not that you’re scared people are angry and you want them to stop being angry. *sigh*
SVUUS Membership Reflection
This January I did a brief reflection at South Valley Unitarian Universalist about why I love the community. I have had several requests for copies, so I am putting it up here on gnosticity for posterity. Its copyrighted with the creative commons CC-BY-SA license, so if its useful, grab it…
God Doesn’t Want You to Know if You have Cancer
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/01/416278/conservatives-cheer-komen-decision/ This is the kind of moronic mob-mind thinking that happens when you don’t actually read and interpret scripture and your relationship to the divine through a sense of conscience. I like this quote: “Last year, a shipment of pink Bibles were recalled after the publishing house behind them realized…
Global Capitalism and Ethics
I recently started a course entitled “Global Capitalism and Ethics” at my seminary at Iliff School of Theology. We are posting blog posts to reflect upon the lectures. I will be posting my reflections here, allowing comments. It will force me to try and make my thoughts more general, less…
7: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
I have not posted since before the holidays. It was a busy time. Something happened recently that has me wanting to write this post, and especially on this principle. My friend, fellow congregant, and fellow board member Jill Hansen died unexpectedly. The death was sudden, and shocking. I think my…
6: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
Taking a break out from a scary paper on the definition of religion to share thoughts on this principle. I just wrote to a fellow seminarian the phrase, “God is not required for us to be good to one-another.” and realized that I wanted to connect it to this principle.…
5: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
I am going to take today’s news to reflect on this principle, because news today demonstrates why we live with such commitment to this principle. Yes, it is hard to organize our congregations democratically. It can be hard for individual members of our communities to remain educated and informed enough…
Reflections on Elie Wiesel’s Night
Listening to Elie Wiesel’s Night has rocked me deeply…I think for the first time in my life listening to such horror, such pain, my mind imagined it in a personal way…the experience has been profoundly painful. Just as a listener, I am humbled to think anyone endured such an experience.…
Illusion of Weakness Sermon
This sermon is a bit out there. I went out on a limb and gave a sermon as a guised archetype…guising is a form of mystical trance where you draw down a character. I wrote and delivered the sermon as Li Tei Quai, a Taoism immortal of Chinese kung-fu legend.…
Emma the Dog: Hey People…please be kind and excellent.
I have a brief story to tell. Last night some kids in our neighborhood found a beautiful little chihuahua wandering the streets…they actually founds its owner. The owner didn’t want it because of a new lease, left her door open, and when the animal got out, decided not to look…